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106 enough time evolving ingenious methods of pre¬ paring cribs and in preparing them to have learned their lessons honestly and well.

The night before the first examinations the cam¬ pus was utterly quiet. Suddenly bedlam broke loose. Somehow every dormitory that contained freshmen became a madhouse at the same time.

Hugh and Carl were in Surrey 19 earnestly study¬ ing. Freddy Dickson flung the door open and shouted hysterically* “The general science exam’s out P Hugh and Carl whirled around in their deskchairs.

“What?” They shouted together.

“Yeah! One of the fellows saw it. A girl that works at the press copied down the exam and gave it to him.”

“What fellow? Where’s the exam?”

“I don’t know who the guy is, but Hubert Man¬ ning saw the exam.”

Hugh and Carl were out of their chairs in an instant, and the three boys rushed out of Surrey in search of Manning. They found him in his room telling a mob of excited classmates that he had n’t seen the exam but that Harry Smithson had. Away went the crowd in search of Smithson, Carl and Hugh and Freddy in the midst of the excited, chattering lads. Smithson had n’t seen the exam,